ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,828, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Spin-orbit torque device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Ji-Sung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joon-Hyun Kwon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Su-Jung Noh (Seoul, South Korea), Han-Saem Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Byong-Guk Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jaimin Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong-Mok Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Soogil Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a spin-orbit torque devi...